The history of Britain and the aspirations of her Christian communities can be traced in the glorious excesses of the ...

It has been eight centuries, to the year, since Pope Honorius III issued an edict to raise money for a new cathedral in the city of Metz. And while it would be years before the first stone was laid, ...

The inspiring and daunting austerity of the new Cathedral permeates every aspect of its architecture. Going against tradition and placing the main entrance to the extreme left of the facade, the ...

On April 4, 1942, the diarist Henry “Chips” Channon and a few of his friends paid a visit to Wells Cathedral—one of England’s early Gothic treasures—in the southwest county of Somerset. Having spent ...

In the genuine Gothic of France, indeed, the pointed arch could not be so used ; not, however, because of any inherent difficulty in thus adjusting one pointed arch to another, but because in this way ...

Gothic cathedrals were meant to overwhelm. And they do—even their secular-minded 21st-century visitors. Can we enter any other space in which ordinary sensory dimensions seem so stymied? Inside a ...

Discover the revival of Kerala’s church architecture through the renovated St. Mary’s Orthodox Cathedral and its cultural ...

The Notre Dame Cathedral will survive a massive fire that threatened the 800-year-old Parisian landmark and, in it, one of the most famed examples of French Gothic architecture in the world. Built ...

There are a lot of tourist hotspots in America's capital of Washington, D.C., but if you want a local's advice about what to check out, take a look at this.

Washington National Cathedral stands tall in the nation’s capital. It is the city’s fourth-tallest building and the building with the highest point, rising 676 feet above sea level atop Mount Saint ...

Editor’s Note: Isambard Wilkinson was previously the Islamabad correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and is the author of ‘Travels in a Dervish Cloak.’ St George’s Cross billows above the castellated ...